Dvd Def Poetry Season 3

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Posted on 07.31.2005

Russell Simmons Presents
Def Poetry Season 3
Encoding : Region 1
HBO Video
Release Date : July 19, 2005

The hit series that made poetry cool is back on DVD. From the makers of Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam, HBO Video presents seven new half-hour editions of the acclaimed late-night series that showcases practitioners of one of the country’s fastest-rising performing-art forms – def poetry – in an intimate, uncensored format. Taped live at The Supper Club in New York, each installment is hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def, and spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists, including Smokey Robinson, Jill Scott and Salt. Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry : Season Three arrives exclusively on DVD on July 19.

Critical Acclaim :
Winner of the prestigious Peabody Award in 2003, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry “delivers a different sort of television with sublime, rhyming attitude” (Detroit Free Press). A “treat and a triumph” (The New York Daily News), Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is an “exuberant, daring, fresh series” that “breaks poetry out of the little boxes it is so often put in” (The New York Times). “With its drama, its driving rhythms and its grab-you-by-the-lapels intensity, the Def Poetry is a natural for TV” (The Cincinnati Enquirer).

Program Information :
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is the brainchild of top rap music impresario Simmons, whose Def Jam Records launched the careers of such artists as LL Cool J and Public Enemy. The series is based on the cultural phenomenon Def Poetry Jam, which is executive produced by Bruce George, Deborah Pointer and Danny Simmons. The executive producers of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry are Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan ; co-executive producer, Mos Def ; producer, John Irwin ; directed by Stan Lathan.

Hosted by Mos Def, a highly regarded rapper and actor whose credits include the hit album “Black on Both Sides” ; the critically acclaimed film “Monster’s Ball” ; the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Topdog/Underdog” ; and the HBO Films presentation “Something the Lord Made,” the series is directed by Stan Lathan, who, along with Simmons, was executive producer of the long-running hit HBO series “Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam,” which was also directed by Lathan.

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